Oscar Wao Character Analysis

Oscar Wao finds himself being disconnected from society. Oscar found himself becoming depressed and gaining weight after he was dumped by Maritza. There is no doubt that Oscar is different than everyone else, he is a weird kid. He is never really into the same things as everyone else, his differences brought to his attention when his family and friends would bring it up. His passion is to read and write. Oscar is just awkward and weird, he doesn’t fit in with the whole mainstream of things that other kids his age are into.In the book Yunior said Oscar “Couldn’t make friends for the life of him, too dorky, too shy, and too weird (had a habit of using big words he had memorized only the day before)” (Junot Diaz 217). His friends started hanging

He was constantly being told that he wasn’t Dominican because he didn’t fit into their Dominican Standards. When he went to college, the kids at school would tell him he isn’t Dominican, and Oscar constantly had to repeat the same sentences of him saying he is Dominican.The sad part was that his family also did the same thing, they would degrade him of his culture. Yunior said “And except for one period early in his life, dude never had much luck with the females (how very un-Dominican of him)” (Junot Diaz 11). You had the big difference between Oscar and Yunior. Yunior was your typical Dominican because of all the characteristics he had. In the article The Marvelous History of the Dominican Republic in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao “The narrative sees him transform himself from a ‘normal’ Dominican boy raised in a ‘typical’ Dominican family” (a characterization of Oscar that applies equally to Yunior); although Yunior himself was “one of those Dominican cats everybody’s always going on about,” a “home-run hitter,” a “playboy with a million hits on his jock.” The thing with Yunior was that he didn’t have just one girl he had multiple girls and had sex with multiple girls. It was normal in his culture. There was also multiple examples of Lola leaving him because he couldn’t commit just to her. In the story it also told the story about the doctor,

In the article Gender Roles in Dominican Republic it states that the men carry a reputation of being a womanizer. One of the many characteristics was flaunting about sexual activities. Oscar refused to die a virgin, he really valued that. He valued it so much and saw it as important as his culture.He always talked about it and complained about how he was never going to lose it. His family would make fun of him because he still had not lost his virginity, they would tell him at his age he should of had girls lined up. In the book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is said “Oscar, Lola warned repeatedly, you’re going to die a virgin unless you start changing” (Junot Diaz 25). He felt like a loser and felt like he wasn’t really Dominican because at that time he should have lost his virginity. He had trouble with it though because he had no friends and no girl was ever interest in